Leseprobe

4 Sense of Light In certain places, earth and sky are par- ticularly close together. This is for exam- ple the case at seashores or at high mountains, where quite different spheres, materiality and their diverse states of aggregation – air, clouds, wa- ter, rocks – meet and mix in an almost immeasurable width and concentration. In her comprehensive work complex Nordland, which has grown since 2015, Conny Luley has dealt with the phenom- enon of the mutual interpenetration of the atmospheric, without having any concretely identifiable places, topogra- phies or landscapes ever been created here in the true sense of the word. In fact, a boat trip to the Arctic Circle was a first starting point for this work phase consistently lasting several years. Soon however, the impressions and memories gained, took on a life of their own in the studio, and with the progres- sive development of the visual concept, they soon became fundamental. At the beginning of the Nordland series, the color surfaces were initially unified, which concentrated the entire painting basis on a homogeneously drying emul- sion, but then the compositions increas- ingly dissolved into transparent glazes in reduced colors. More and more, color painting turned into light painting.